Rawhide (song)

"Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine. The song was used as the theme to Rawhide, a western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1966. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[1]

"Rawhide"
Song
LanguageEnglish
Composer(s)Dimitri Tiomkin
Lyricist(s)Ned Washington

The song is about the job of a drover on a cattle drive.

In other media
  • In The Blues Brothers, the band performs "Rawhide" in a local country bar.
  • The song is played in a scene on An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, when the titular character is rolling through the desert inside a tumbleweed. The song is actually the cover reused from The Blues Brothers, mentioned above, performed by a uncredited Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as various desert animals. However, the song is not heard on the soundtrack for copyright reasons.
  • On The Simpsons, the Canyonero jingle featured in "The Last Temptation of Krust" is a parody. Additionally, in "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore", the song Homer, Lenny, and Carl sang while rolling on toxic barrels is sung to the tune of Rawhide.
  • In Shrek 2, Donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy) is briefly heard singing the song; however the song wasn't included in the soundtrack.
  • In Happy Feet 2, the elephant seals were heard singing with an Australian accent while marching to the iceberg was included in the soundtrack.
  • The theme song to the 1980 Japanese Super Sentai series, Denshi Sentai Denjiman, is heavily based on the Rawhide theme song.[2]
  • The jingle for the Rosen Motor Group used car dealership ("Rosen, Rosen, Rosen, Rosen, Rosen, Rosen") is based on the Rawhide theme.
  • A series of mid-1990s advertisements for the Walmart chain that focus on its rolling back prices use a song based on the Rawhide theme.

Notable covers

See also

References
  1. Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014.
  2. Video on YouTube
  3. ufrp136 (2014-06-06), FRANK CHACKSFIELD - RAWHIDE, retrieved 2017-10-03
  4. Chacksfield, Frank (3 October 2017). "Audio: Veronica news jingle with Dragnet and Rawhide".
  5. "Ensiferum "One Man Army"".
  6. Video on YouTube
  7. "New Zealand Railways. Rollin', rollin', rollin', rail freight". Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Retrieved 8 April 2018..
  8. "Fedora Rawhide history". Retrieved 26 June 2016.
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